1) This clause applies to a farm worker –
a) who has been employed by an employer for longer than four months; and
b) who works on at least four days a week for that employer.
2) An employer must grant a farm worker, during each 12 months of employment, at the request of the farm worker, three days’ paid leave, which the farm worker is entitled to take -
a) when the farm worker’s child is born;
b) when the farm worker’s child is sick; or
c) in the event of the death of –
i) the farm worker’s spouse or life partner; or
ii) the farm worker’s parent, adoptive parent, grandparent, child, adopted child, grandchildren or sibling.
3) A farm worker may take family responsibility leave in respect of the whole or part of the day.
4) Subject to sub-clause (5), an employer must pay a farm worker for a day’s family responsibility leave-
a) the wage the farm worker would normally have received for work on that day; and
b) on the farm worker’s usual payday.
5) Before paying a farm worker for leave in terms of this clause, an employer may require reasonable proof of an event contemplated in sub-clause (2) for which the leave was required.
6) A farm worker’s unused entitlement to leave in terms of this clause lapses at the end of the annual leave cycle in which it accrues.